So what the heck is One O?

And that’s a question. One O is an experiment, just like we wrote on our about page. We are Chiara, read “kihara” – the banana head, and Irene, can’t actually spell the reading, but well that’s the carrot head. Just a few weeks ago we were students at Polytechnic University of Turin (that’s our city, North West Italy) and now we hold a Bachelor in Graphic and Virtual design.

Down here a photo of us just awarded. Hurray! Open the party! That was kind of the mood.

Anyway, I’m telling you this because One O was exactly our thesis project. We made this great experience of silkscreening a beautiful textile from India, designing ourselves patterns directly inspired by Turin’s architectures and installations.

With this blog we’d like to bring you to a trip with us, to rediscover special things in life that generally aren’t considered worthy. Sometimes because you see things so many times you get so used to, you start actually not to notice it. Or maybe you were too busy doing things. Think: when was the last time you appreciated carefully elements on your journey to the office? Or by your neighbours? Or just elements of your city? Details ladies, small little details that might astonish you. Life is made of these! And here we come to our mantra: things we lost. One O is a process of rediscovering things of life we lost and want to get conscious about.

To create One O’s patterns all we did was grab our cameras and just walk around the city centre looking carefully and walking slowly. We felt somehow tourists of our own city! That was weird and absolutely inspiring, a thing to try sometimes. I absolutely recommend it. We caught so many details, here just a few shots of geometries and patterns just there for us to admire.

Afterwards, we selected those pictures that mostly inspired us and converted them in digital patterns, with use of simple geometrical elements. Once we had the digital versions we decided to trace them by hand, to lose that edgy-mass-produced look and give them a human warmth. Slight imperfections have been added and we think this is plus.

Once our patterns were born, we sent them to get impressed in the silkscreen frames and ready they were to get printed! The frames are giant, as you can see the picture below.

For the printing part I might delegate to another post, as this is gettin waaay to long. From giant frames to lovely finished textiles, are you curious? I shouldn’t be telling you already but we have… a video! Shhh!

So in the end Irene and me are very happy to welcome you to our dream trip, hoping to inspire your every day life with gorgeous little posts of love. This is our unique project and damn it if we’re gonna make this rock! Just wait and see We have great plans here!

And now about you my dear reader, do you have a dream thing? That one special thing you always dreamed of launching and, well, never actually did? What we want you to do exactly NOW is grab your keyboard and type in the comments what is it that stops you! Why is it so difficult? Why the thing did never actually start? We might find out together that people have common reasons not to take the bus called “adventure”. Get it all out now!

One O is an italian project and craft blog by Chiara & Irene. Their aim is to experiment foolish colorful projects to inspire your everyday life.

Except where otherwise stated, all images are taken by Chiara Cavagion & Irene Fucci from One O. Everything on one-o.it is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.